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Nairobi: A top Kenyan election commissioner has quit and fled the country a week before a re-run of the presidential vote, citing political intimidation and...

Frankfurt: A Swiss man accused of spying on a German tax authority to find out how it obtained details of secret Swiss bank accounts set up by Germans to...

London: Richard Branson, billionaire founder of the Virgin group, has revealed he was targeted by a fraudster posing as Britain's defence minister who...

Washington: Proponents of a bipartisan deal struck by two U.S. senators to stabilise Obamacare were seeking on Wednesday to win Republican support for the...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition is on track for a roughly two-thirds majority in Sunday's general election, a survey by Kyodo...

Manila: Philippine law enforcement agents have arrested a woman who tried to spread radical ideas and recruit hundreds of foreigners to reinforce pro-IS...

Bangkok: Rights groups on Wednesday urged the European Union and Japan to consider halting their funding for the election panel in Cambodia, if the ruling...

Off The Tunisian Coast: Tunisian smugglers are offering migrants seeking a fresh start in Europe a new route from Africa to Italy. Thousands have made the...

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a critical Communist Party Congress on Wednesday with a pledge to build a "modern socialist country"...

Zakho (Iraq): More than three weeks after Iraq's Kurds voted for independence, it's business as usual at the bustling Ibrahim Khalil border crossing...